Comment by Government of the United Kingdom

Participating countries committed, depending on their circumstances, to the development of appropriate state-led evaluation and safety research while participating companies agreed that they would support the next iteration of their models to undergo appropriate independent evaluation and testing. Multiple participants suggested that existing voluntary commitments would need to be put on a legal or regulatory footing in due course. It was suggested that there might be certain circumstances in which governments should apply the principle that models must be proven to be safe before they are deployed, with a presumption that they are otherwise dangerous.